Metal Mouth Message Board

I'm from Toronto Canada.

I'm 20.

I've had my metal lowers on since May 1st 2006 and my ceramic uppers on since September 8th 2006.

Giant improvement, my ortho calls me her 'poster child' but shes just saying that to be nice.

Speaking of wisdom teeth... I haven't gotten mine out. eek!

no problemo. same thing actually happened to me. i had a powerchain on for a few months yet the gap still didnt seem to be making any progress... while getting molds done one day, the mold got stuck in my teeth so while the nurse was yanking it out so painful (tears and drool everywhere) she snapped...

perhaps the gap was made to make suitable room for the other teeth behind it, so that theres no crowding. i always had a gap between my two front teeth, and then during the beginning of the braces process the gap widened, but that was due to an appliance i had to wear. eventually the dentist, put a ...

i use to have to wear reverse headgear (the facemask type deal) so one night i was watching tv w/ my glasses on (i dont usually wear them) and then strapped my headgear on top over it. i was just dozing off to sleep, when i was nudged awake being alerted that i had fallen asleep w/ my glasses on, un...

i dont know much if any at all about what you're allowed to eat during pregnancy.

but how some sort of protein or nutrient supplement type shakes?

they seem to pack on the pounds.

the gap toothiness saga continues...

so all is going well, actually better than expected.
my ortho thought it would be a better idea to try and close the gaps w/ powerchains (?) than to just cover them up w/ bonding.
its going to take a little longer to finish now, but i really don't care.

holy smokes,

i had no idea of those phases

thanks for informing the rest of us

the frenectomy wasn't that bad. of course it hurt like hell, and was rather uncomfortable to laugh, eat, and smile for the next week or so but after that it was perfectly fine, if not even better than before. i did get the procedure done at the ortho office, i got it done a little bit before i had t...

oh right and i forgot to mention the key turning.

its best to have someone else do it for you, but if you can do it on your own bravo because i sure couldn't.

anyways you do feel a bit of pressure, and very very slight pain for about 30 seconds then it goes away.

I had the upper expander with the key. and to be honest, I found it horrible. It was sooooo bad at first, I kept on gagging on my tongue, I couldn't eat anything that I really wanted and I had a hard time speaking. Once you get use to it, its not so bad, you'll occassionally have the slip of the ton...

hmm, i dont think so.
my ortho is stuck on bonding, she even wanted to bond that giant gap i had.
i really think what she wants is money.
but who knows maybe i'm wrong, maybe it is the only option?
she said it was.
?

thanks to everyone who replied to this topic with factual and interesting points. i'd like to inform you my giant gap has of now disappoeared, now i only have a somewhat medium sized one next to my front two teeth but the my two front teeth have closed and that was my main concern... i guess my orth...

but anyways back to the ortho... she's most likely going to ignore my wishes and do whats best for her... for her paycheck that is. i'm just reallly frustrated with myself for not doing my homework and jumping head-first in this situation. ...so now due to the pull between my two front teeth, and th...

wow, from the various responses across this board.

alot of us have sucky, jerky, or coniving orthos that are working with us... lovely.

maybe i will M., maybe i will.

i just can't wait for this sucker to close though, looks like its not going to be happening before the first week of may though (boo).

i have a very important social gala to attend, i haven't seen some of the people that are going to be there in almost a year!